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This is a language from my Science-fiction book Astral Tale. It is designed to sound alien.

Lara, the Laranese homeworld

Kranti, or Common Laranese as humans call it, is the lingua franca of the Laranese feline alien species. It was the first alien language described by human scholars. It is one of 2000 languages spoken on their homeworld of Lara, belonging to the Krantic branch of Kranto-Fenikic language family. It is the national language of the Krant kingdom.

Sarah Matthew, the first human linguist who became familiar with Kranti has adopted a Latin orthography for this language used in this article. There are also a native script to write Kranti but it has decreased in use after the human-laranese contact.

Kranti language feature a so-called fourth person which use to express impersonal verbs or to distinguish two third-person perfomers in a clause. For example the English phrase "He is leaving because he is sick" is ambiguous because is not sure if is refer to one or two persons and is not clear who is leaving and who is staying. This is not case of Kranti.

Kranti use the hexadecimal system, because their hand and their foot have only four digits.

Number

Kranti

0

pati

1

ada

2

jxeen

3

qei

4

konya

5

dlaanu

6

eeevu

7

ooyrta

8

loik

9

eewqa

10

baitu

11

ngagi

12

rolsu

13

lzasii

14

jecxaa

15

alkoo

16

reeluu

256

annyuuu

4096

munuu

65536

vwequ

1048576

lafik

16777216

fasghi

268435456

zhed

429497296

yulir

The multiples of powers of 16 is by adding the coresponding divisor as a prefix to that power. For example 32 is jxeenreeluu. Complex numbers like 33, 50 is formed by the number that needed to added as a suffix. For example 33 is jxeenreeluuada and 50 qeireeluuujxeen. The ordinary example is made by adding the suffix -car to the cardinal one.